YES!!! 100% agreed. That scene was perfect in every way.
Trek Movie Moments that...
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YES!!! 100% agreed. That scene was perfect in every way.
I'll have to see it again...
Good thread topic, as I think it over I have to admit there are a lot of those little moments throughout the films.
Interesting range of reactions.
The "I've been dead before" in TUC actually gives me a snicker.
Kirk's false death in Generations when they're looking at the blown out hull and the force field. If I could, I'd put the death on the bridge scaffold earlier, leading Kirk to the Nexus, and let his real death be the one saving the ship. But that's a whole thread ad naseum.
Data's was a little too fast, but it does hit me when they're back on the bridge, looking at the explosion. And after seeing that movie I was half singing "Never saw the sun..." in a loop for weeks
But of course the big Kleenex award has got to be Spock's death. I remember feeling the relative humidity go up in the theater...
Interesting range of reactions.
The "I've been dead before" in TUC actually gives me a snicker.
Kirk's false death in Generations when they're looking at the blown out hull and the force field. If I could, I'd put the death on the bridge scaffold earlier, leading Kirk to the Nexus, and let his real death be the one saving the ship. But that's a whole thread ad naseum.
Data's was a little too fast, but it does hit me when they're back on the bridge, looking at the explosion. And after seeing that movie I was half singing "Never saw the sun..." in a loop for weeks
But of course the big Kleenex award has got to be Spock's death. I remember feeling the relative humidity go up in the theater...
TWOK and TSFS are full of great moments.
In TWOK...
- Kirk's reaction to Spock's death. I've never seen a character -- Trek or otherwise -- look so completely and utterly devestated.
- Kirk's admission to David (and personal epiphany) that he has, indeed, never really experienced death -- at least not like this -- and has spent his entire life cheating and bargaining his way out of it.
- The moment soon after when Kirk and David hug, knowing that both have begun to accept their respective roles as "father" and "son." It shows how Kirk has grown, and how his carousing in his younger years was not without reprecussion.
- When McCoy asks Kirk how he feels, and Kirk replies that he feels "young."
In TSFS...
- The devestation exuded by Kirk in his response to David's death. Particularly effective is Shatner's missing of his chair, which was un-scripted. He went with the flow, and the scene turned out well
- "My God, Bones. WhathaveIdone?"
"You did what you had to do, what you always do -- turn death into a fighting chance to live.
- Anything that involves Kruge and his ruthless crew getting what they have to coming them. The bridge countdown is still one of Trek's all-time great scenes (not to mention one of the best revenge scenes ever), and seeing Kruge get kicked off a cliff as Kirk conveys how he feels about their time spent together is also great.
Honorable mention goes out to the final scene in Nemesis. After all the numerous changes that occured in this movie -- from personnel leaving to Data dying to the Ent-E being brought to the brink of destruction -- seeing Picard simply stroll down a corridor of his beloved ship, his eyes and his smile conveying that he knew things were going to be OK, was particularly powerful. For a movie that got so many things wrong, it's hard to argue that the ending -- strikingly simple, gentle, and elegant in its design -- isn't pitch-perfect.
In TWOK...
- Kirk's reaction to Spock's death. I've never seen a character -- Trek or otherwise -- look so completely and utterly devestated.
- Kirk's admission to David (and personal epiphany) that he has, indeed, never really experienced death -- at least not like this -- and has spent his entire life cheating and bargaining his way out of it.
- The moment soon after when Kirk and David hug, knowing that both have begun to accept their respective roles as "father" and "son." It shows how Kirk has grown, and how his carousing in his younger years was not without reprecussion.
- When McCoy asks Kirk how he feels, and Kirk replies that he feels "young."
In TSFS...
- The devestation exuded by Kirk in his response to David's death. Particularly effective is Shatner's missing of his chair, which was un-scripted. He went with the flow, and the scene turned out well
- "My God, Bones. WhathaveIdone?"
"You did what you had to do, what you always do -- turn death into a fighting chance to live.
- Anything that involves Kruge and his ruthless crew getting what they have to coming them. The bridge countdown is still one of Trek's all-time great scenes (not to mention one of the best revenge scenes ever), and seeing Kruge get kicked off a cliff as Kirk conveys how he feels about their time spent together is also great.
Honorable mention goes out to the final scene in Nemesis. After all the numerous changes that occured in this movie -- from personnel leaving to Data dying to the Ent-E being brought to the brink of destruction -- seeing Picard simply stroll down a corridor of his beloved ship, his eyes and his smile conveying that he knew things were going to be OK, was particularly powerful. For a movie that got so many things wrong, it's hard to argue that the ending -- strikingly simple, gentle, and elegant in its design -- isn't pitch-perfect.
I too was a child of the TNG era, I remember I got quite emotional in Generations when they began the Saucer separation sequence and it kinda sunk in that this was it.
The Enterprise-D was a fictional starship but in many ways it carried my imagination with it for 7 years, as a child it made me dream, My friends consider me extremely creative and just between us Trekkers I credit that to the adventures and ideas the E-D brought me on every week.
The real kicker in that scene for me however was as it came through the clouds, theres something powerful about watching a starship coming down on a planet, a technilogical metaphore for falling from heaven I suppose.
In Nemesis as others have mentioned the ending had the heart I came to remember from TNG.
I got kinda choked up as they are all sharing a glass of wine in honor of data and Riker says "What was the name of that song.... I cant remember the song...
God that got me for some reason, mainly because I did remember the song.
And yes Blue Skies morphing into the Star Trek overture was beyond perfect, easily one of the greatest sci-fi musical ques ever.
The Enterprise-D was a fictional starship but in many ways it carried my imagination with it for 7 years, as a child it made me dream, My friends consider me extremely creative and just between us Trekkers I credit that to the adventures and ideas the E-D brought me on every week.
The real kicker in that scene for me however was as it came through the clouds, theres something powerful about watching a starship coming down on a planet, a technilogical metaphore for falling from heaven I suppose.
In Nemesis as others have mentioned the ending had the heart I came to remember from TNG.
I got kinda choked up as they are all sharing a glass of wine in honor of data and Riker says "What was the name of that song.... I cant remember the song...
God that got me for some reason, mainly because I did remember the song.
And yes Blue Skies morphing into the Star Trek overture was beyond perfect, easily one of the greatest sci-fi musical ques ever.
Now that I own Nemesis... I'll have to see it...
I think I felt a pit in my stomach open when that panel blew, before Geordi informed the bridge that there was a problem. I was like "Wait a minute, wasn't that panel important?" And everything after that made me sit in a still silence.
I knew all about the adventures of the Enterprise-D and her crew long before I fully learned about the other series. So Generations affected me the most, probably, out of all the TNG movies. When one of the crew said "There's no salvaging this" or whatever it was, it was like a punch to the face. I had even thought of it as my starship at times.
Oh, most assuredly.
Agreed with everything.
I still miss the D... she's my favorite ship...
ST III Death of THE Enterprise ("no bleedin' A, B, C, D, or E"). However the emotion was complete anger. Spock they bring back to life. The Enterprise they just rechristen one of the remaining 12 ships. Not to mention she didn't self-destruct. She fizzled!!!. No sir. Not MY favorite character of all series and movies. She wouldn't fizzle. She'd take out AT LEAST that entire solar system in a super-super-duper nova that would make the big bang look like a firecracker (of sorts *grin*).
"Never lose you." - James T. Kirk
"Never lose you." - James T. Kirk
Including the planet Kirk & co. were on? Yeah, good plan.
For me I cant remember what I felt seeing most of the films for the first time, although the opening shot of the Enterprise in Nemesis with the music made me feel something in the cinema.
Before that it would be all of the beaty shots early on during TMP..first time I remember seeing that I was at my Grandparents around Christmas and they had taped it off the TV...shots of the new Enterprise in dock and then powering up...hope theres something similar in the new film
Before that it would be all of the beaty shots early on during TMP..first time I remember seeing that I was at my Grandparents around Christmas and they had taped it off the TV...shots of the new Enterprise in dock and then powering up...hope theres something similar in the new film
Yeah, that was a surprise the first time through. First, of course, the ``you can emerge anywhere anytime'' seems like it's set up for a reset-button where the Enterprise didn't get blown up again. Even once the Nexus has come and gone there it isn't until Picard's final log entry that it's established the saucer won't be lifting off again, even with a tow. From what's seen before, obviously, the damage is incredible, but the interior sets would have been as visibly damaged in ``Disaster'' if the budget would have afforded it, and they obviously weren't giving up the ship then.
Too bad they didn't go back and kill the Duras sisters by sabotaging their ship...
I, too, was a TNG baby. I can remember seeing TNG before seeing TSFS, so when the Enterprise was destroyed there, I knew there would be more because I had already seen the fifth ship in TNG. So I had more of an attachment to the Enterprise-D then the original.
The two biggest emotional moments for me were:
- The death of the Enterprise-D. Just like an earlier poster, that ship also carried my imagination. I loved that ship, and I remember actually MISSING her after seeing Generations. I was like, "Wow, no more Enterprise." Even though I knew there would be an "E", that was THE ENTERPRISE for me.
- Spock's death. It just twists that stomach like nothing else can, especially Kirk's devastated reaction and the selflessness of Spock's actions. After all, it was probably "the logical" thing to do.
The two biggest emotional moments for me were:
- The death of the Enterprise-D. Just like an earlier poster, that ship also carried my imagination. I loved that ship, and I remember actually MISSING her after seeing Generations. I was like, "Wow, no more Enterprise." Even though I knew there would be an "E", that was THE ENTERPRISE for me.
- Spock's death. It just twists that stomach like nothing else can, especially Kirk's devastated reaction and the selflessness of Spock's actions. After all, it was probably "the logical" thing to do.
It was also the human thing to do...
Spock's death, and funeral. :SOB: I want the same eulogy.
McCoy thinking he's Spock, in Spock's quarters. Still scares the crud out of me.
McCoy thinking he's Spock, in Spock's quarters. Still scares the crud out of me.
